Example sentences of "it off and [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When the claimant was a relative or friend , the first reaction after the hugs and kisses was to take hold of the label round the child 's neck , tear it off and throw it to the ground . |
| 2 | Mattie had wanted to put a shawl over her shoulders , but she had shrugged it off and demanded to be left alone . |
| 3 | He tore it off and rolled it up to glance at later . |
| 4 | And then er er but it was this was fixed right above , then you could , reach if you did feel you hand getting caught , you could slide it off and stop the p switch it onto loose pulley immediately . |
| 5 | Constanza found him uncouth and a bore — that was one of the things being with Simon did to one — she broke it off and went to parties again . |
| 6 | Gary 's great strength was an ability to get to a ball first in the penalty area , but if he received it at his feet 30 yards from goal he was looking for help , to lay it off and get into the penalty area . |
| 7 | ( Negative about writing , especially creative writing , will put it off and get out of it if he can . |
| 8 | I saw the cord and took it off and put it in my pocket . |
| 9 | And you ken they used to lift it off and put it in the ground . |
| 10 | ‘ Wash it off and put it in the meter for me , would you , Tom ? |
| 11 | Well I think he will just before I take it off and put it , and then what ? |
| 12 | But he shook it off and came forward again . |
| 13 | Chéron took it off and replaced it with a poem by Baudelaire , considering that he had elevated the tone . |
| 14 | until somebody 's signed it off and authorized it . |
| 15 | I always put it off and played a lot of sport at high school instead , until I hurt my knee really badly . |
| 16 | only going to cross it off and use it again . |
| 17 | When you observe leaf-roll , it does n't take a moment to pinch the leaf firmly between finger and thumb or , better still , to pick it off and burn it . |
| 18 | ‘ As you know there are two kinds of roughing you can either put frost-nails in the shoe or you can take it off and turn the heels and the toes of the shoes up — turning 'em up , we used to call it . |
| 19 | ‘ They had to get rid of the offensive literature , they could n't burn it , so they scraped it off and grafted back some skin from my arse … |
| 20 | Nobody would take her seriously , Luke would laugh it off and take control of the situation , belittle her in front of his friends … and , besides , did she really want Mark 's death brought down to the level of party-stopper ? |
| 21 | Well I 'm telling you they stuck it they had a sort of flat bottomed cart and they used to stick it in and when they came there they , they lifted it off and stuck it in the ground and it was just similar to that only it was hooped |
| 22 | Well switch it off and bring it up again and see if it changes . |
| 23 | She shrugged it off and left it lying where it fell , in a heap at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 24 | I 'll get it off and sent Carol . |
| 25 | Out of the same melancholy he grabbed irrationally at a whole branch , wrenched it off and tossed it among the trees . |
| 26 | When he broke his back he laughed it off and told Lotus he was fit for a test drive . |
| 27 | Ellwood had answered the door wearing his bathrobe ; now he shrugged it off and began to dress . |
| 28 | He pulled it off and felt the cold air bite into his hot skin , his scanty hair standing up and waving gently in the breeze . |
| 29 | Why ca n't I take it off and rest it awhile on someone 's mantel-piece ? |
| 30 | A scab is something you have to put up with until the time comes when you can pick it off and flick it away . |